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People say change is hard. It is, but it is much more achievable when you have a coach like Hanlie to guide you through the process. I was lucky enough to have Hanlie as an executive coach while I was transitioning out of Freethinking in 2018, a management consultancy that I had started 10 years earlier. I learnt a lot from her in dealing with leadership challenges, building a high-performing team, and providing a vision for my leadership team to take over from me. Once Hanlie helped me identify leadership areas that I needed to work on, she worked tirelessly in making sure that the new habits that I had been practicing stuck. I attribute a lot of my success in navigating a challenging period in my career to Hanlie >> Derrick Cooks. CEO, Freethinking

I worked with Hanlie to bring my vision of a more tolerant world to life. Together we created a plan and designed the action steps to bring this plan to life. This kind of strategic and big picture thinking combined with executive planning has helped me clearly formulate the outcomes I want to see for Caused-Based Consulting and Humanity Rising. I continue to work with Hanlie as she holds my "feet to the fire" … keeping me accountable and energized to ensure my success. She is also incredibly inspiring and a pleasure to work with >> Debbie Ferruzzi. President, Founder, Cause-Based Consulting & Humanity Rising

My first interaction with Hanlie was through my work in the hate crime and victim empowerment in 2009 through our service on the Hate Crimes Working Group.  This is a nationally recognized group that aimed to bring together the foremost experts in South Africa to tackle an on-going social problem.  Right away she proved herself to be a strong and gifted researcher, where she looked at the psychology of victimization.  She brought a highly unique perspective to this work and was a welcome voice in the group.  We had the opportunity to collaborate on research as a part of the group, and she has provided a great deal of her independent hate and bias crime research that we use in our bi-annual reports, which are distributed to the South African government and universities >> Iole Matthews. Director, Independent Projects Trust and Former Chair of the Hate Crimes Working Group

From the moment I met Hanlie it was clear she was a rare find. An intellectually nimble self-starter, Hanlie is just as dedicated to research as she is to caring for clients. Hanlie reported to me for four years at Habits at Work in her capacity as wellness consultant and as Head of Research. Hanlie transformed our start-up company’s small collection of ideas and articles into a robust, research-backed habits database – the company’s core resource. Whether devouring academic journal articles, helping clients take their first baby steps towards change, or presenting her recent findings to co-workers, Hanlie is known for her commitment to getting things right. She is also a student of life with seemingly boundless energy stores >> Caryn Tomasiewicz. Chief Operating Officer at Habits at Work

It has been a great learning and fun experience to work with Hanlie and learn about Wellness and Happiness Habits. Her coaching has been instrumental to understand how to foster wellness and key elements for sustaining positive habits in general  >> Dania Inowe. Human Resources, Rain Bird

Hanlie is able to create and hold a safe space for both individuals and groups so they are able to face their challenges in a constructive way, taking all members on the journey with them. Her rapport, coaching, group facilitation and strategic culture transformation work combined with choice architecture results in a transformational journey that faces the difficult issues in ways where the members of the organization experience their growth in bursts of delight and surprise. She has a distinctive way of challenging both individuals and groups to transform the way they behave within a system. She has an acute awareness of group dynamics, the unspoken assumptions that drive them and she has mastered the art of questioning so the group is able to bring these to the surface and own it’s own transformation thereby enabling them to sustain it after consultants exit. If there is an unhealthy dynamic that stops a team from performing she will not leave any stone unturned >> Elni Wasserman-McNaughton. Flight Operations Project Manager, Qatar Airways

I first met Hanlie more than six years ago as a client of Health at Work during my time as vice president of marketing for a subsidiary of Blue Cross of Tennessee. The project scope consisted of developing a new behavioural model for the health plan’s employer-centric wellness product.  Hanlie lead the research, recommendations, and presentation effort over the 12-week engagement that resulted in powerful insights into the relationship between specific habit change activities and employee health, happiness, and workplace engagement.  Blue Cross leveraged the data and artifacts of the project to update its value proposition, marketing, and competitive differentiation. Later I was able to work alongside Hanlie and I can tell you with utmost sincerity that she is one of the most dedicated, tenacious, insightful, and innovative people I’ve had the pleasure of working with in any capacity. Through her insatiable drive for learning, research and experimentation, Hanlie has a unique ability to break through the status quo to advance the cause for an organization, a team, or an individual.  She is also funny, compassionate, kind and never misses the opportunity to help others. Hanlie is the type of person you can count on to keep a cool head in a stressful situation, and her positive attitude is contagious >> Debbi Brooks. MSML

Hanlie is not only rigorous and efficient as a project manager, but as a coach and wellness expert. Her skills in balancing the needs of both the organization and the individual are outstanding, and she has a strong ability to bring the best out of people. Her work and experience were enhanced by her academic research work on hate crime, and the unique physical manifestations that arise for victims. Her background in psychology and wellness provided a perspective that added huge value to the business >> Kathy Berman. CEO, Space Consulting

Hanlie demonstrates a consistency in performing selflessly to bring out the potential in those around her, while achieving the objectives of a project and contributing to the vision of the organization.  I have observed evidence of her skills in training for purposes of cultural change, group facilitation for teams and the uncanny ability to have insight and translate scientific findings to daily application for lay population >> Tracie Ann Tam Tjapkess. Wellness Director at Castle Medical Center

Hanlie possesses the unique combination of psychological knowledge with a strong business acumen. As she works, she is able to craft systems that have a strong impact on the health and wellness of the employee while balancing the business needs of the corporate client. My background in accounting and business operations leads me to also focus on the business impacts of a program, and it is very nice to recognize someone with the psychological and interpersonal expertise that can balance the business needs of an organization >> Howard Lee. President and CEO, University Health Alliance

While working as head of product development and executive coach at Cycan, Hanlie created a program known as NeuroAlchemy (now LeadershipAlchemy).  This diagnostic model, and the corresponding training, was developed in conjunction with a leading neurosurgeon and identified five archetypes of behaviour in order to gauge health, engagement and leadership potential.  Using these tools, health professional and coaches were able to design the appropriate behavioural interventions to enhance wellness and performance.  Her methods are often novel, but always highly effective >> Zi Hattingh. CEO, Cycan Pty Ltd